HULKKEEPER DROWNED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 263, 25 July 1918, Page 6

HULKKEEPER DROWNED

BODY FOUND IN HABNOW,

Earlv yesterday morning the body of a ma.n iia'mod Joseph M'Cann was found in the water near Xgahauranga by Jam°3 Churchouse, a railway ganger, rhe de/vased was GO years of nge, and was keener of the Union Steam Sh p Company's hulk C. Tobias. He lived on the hulk, but ho was married, his wife residing «t JTaNtai. At week-ends it was deceased's custom U> ro borne, and he was lost seen by hi* Wfe on Friday. It i* not known how the -lecrascd got >nto the water, but it is presumed that Hβ mu*t. have boon attempting to enter the hulk's dinghy yesterday morning in order to come ashore, and accidentally fell nil? l-lio sea. The hulk was moored oft Kaiwarra, ami an exam nation of the emit after the bndy was identified revealed that the deceased's cabin was' locked, bo far .the key has not been found. Iho boot'was missing from one of the man* feet and it is thought that deceased must have removed it before he succumbed to exhaustion m us efforts to R ot back o'ther to the din°h.v,or the hulk. A stiff breeze was blowing at tho time tlit. mishap is supposed to have occurred, and a very rough sea was Sine in the locality. An invest into the circumstances of the fatal ty will probably be heldtwnorrw afternoon.